I have a couple of new details to add to "The Touch of Fear", Stephanie's story. Robert's wife is killed at night at an outdoor flower market. She decides to go pick up flowers for Robert's parent's anniversary, which is the next day. Right as Robert arrives at the flower market to meet her, her killer is running away, having just committed the crime. Robert follows him, but the criminal gets away, leaving his gun. Robert gets caught with the gun in his hand (as well as more "evidence" that points towards him "killing his wife") and he is imprisoned. The rest I explained in the last post.
Stephanie placing her false evidence is caught on camera, and the news team later broadcasts her crime on television. She is caught and charged as well. Her students end up raising a ton of money and bailing her out of jail. She is incredibly angry because they didn't bail her brother out (she was the one who actually committed the crime) but still agrees to fight for her brother's case. She proves her brother innocent but loses her job.
Robert's story will be called "Pieces of Time." This is, once again, a seperate story from Stephanie's. Stehanie's story will be told from the third-person, and Robert's will be told from first-person. Robert's story involves Robert telling a student about his life-changing experience that made him fear failure. It is called "Pieces of Time" because that's literally what he is relating to this student. In the story, Robert is about 18 and he has a gorgeous girlfriend whom he adores. He has just finished an argument with her over the telephone because she cancelled a date to the movies with him and he is about to hang up, until he realizes that she did not. He hears her talking to someone, and picks up a conversation that he really shouldn't be hearing.
His best friend and role model who is three years older than him, is at his girlfriend's house with her, and they talk about how cocky and jerkish Robert is. The two talk about how Robert's girlfriend is cheating on Robert with his best friend, and then they both decide to sneak out to make love in a secluded place. Robert becomes incredibly suspicious of his best friend and this obviously destroys their friendship. Robert wonders what else his friend is doing behind his back.
Once he learns where the two are going, Robert angrily goes there to see if they were serious. The place is a remote little meadow, and a big rusty van is rotting in the grass. They are inside the van, and Robert creeps up on them and notices them inside. Instead of bursting in with figurative guns blazing, he hangs back and decides to get revenge on his best friend instead. His best friend had spent a long time saving up money to buy an old airplane, and he spent a lot of time fixing it up. Robert goes and sabotages the underside of the plane, then leaves.
That weekend, his best friend, not knowing that Robert knows about him and his girlfriend, invites Robert for a ride in his plane. Robert freaks out, sort of regretting that he sabotaged it, but still goes with him. Since Robert damaged the underside, his bestie doesn't notice. They are up in the air, and suddenly, something goes wrong with the gas tank. Moments later, the controls explode in Robert's friend's face, instantly killing him. Robert has to take control of the plane which he has no idea how to navigate, and guide it to the ground. When they get back, the authorities determine that it was sabotage (duh) but they can't determine who did it.
Robert is severely traumatically scarred by this, blaming himself for it all. Robert's girlfriend is beside herself with grief, since she really loved Robert's friend, but not Robert. She breaks up with him and tells him she was cheating on him. Robert tells a middle-aged Stephanie about it, and somehow his dad finds out. His dad never treats him the same way again, and Robert's entire personality changes.
Well there ya have it, folks. That's the entirety of Robert's story. I don't see this changing much. The next step of my planning process is to create a brand spanking new character. This will either be a teacher or a student. If I decide it will be a student, it will most likely be the student that Robert is telling his story to. Until next time...maybe I'll do a post that's not writing related. See ya!
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